Postmodern discourse makes all cultural positions secretly political, except the overtly political

Evidence

Perhaps, however, this is not so new a story after all: one remembers, indeed, Freud’s delight at discovering an obscure tribal culture, which alone among the multitudinous traditions of dream analysis had managed to hit on the notion that all dreams had hidden sexual meanings — except for sexual dreams, which meant something else! So also it would seem in the postmodernist debate, and the depoliticized bureaucratic society to which it corresponds, where all seemingly cultural positions turn out to be symbolic forms of political moralizing, except for the single overtly political note, which suggests a slippage from politics back into culture again. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 196

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 865; No topic is inherently political or apolitical — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 139; Post-punk treated culture as inherently political beyond parliamentary politics. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1276 (+12 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 865; No topic is inherently political or apolitical — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 139; Post-punk treated culture as inherently political beyond parliamentary politics. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1276 (+12 more)